I work as a 2nd team lead over a department. My supervisor is on site, but stays in another department and doesn't fully understand the work flow where I am.
The team has 4 tasks to work on and they are given a priority. We are to complete the priority 1 task then move onto priority 2, 3 and 4.
However no one on the team likes to do the priority 2, 3 or 4 tasks. If we have a lot of priority 1 work their productivity is very high and can process 900 units in 8 hours.
However if we only have 400 units of priority 1 work to process it still takes 8 hours. They intentionally slow down so they won't have to do work they don't like. It's driving me crazy. Every time I ask someone to work on priority 2 or 3 work even when priority 1 isn't done, they run straight to the supervisor telling them that I am taking them away from completing the priority 1 tasks. The supervisor then yells at me for not prioritizing task 1.